The Mahogany Coffin
Song · Black Chapel · January 6, 1939 · 13 min · 587 words
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That's not the wind There's only one way into Snape Island There's only one place to go on Snape Island But there are infinite ways to reach the next world This means we completely cut off from the mainland the boat's gone now the radio's gone one way in and No way out and terror while a gaunt-footed figure appears and sits at the keyboard of the Lewindor Lorden.
Mumbling and gibbering is fantastic tale as his talon hands grip the crack. Little do they know. Little does anyone know what's about the Mahadani coffin? The Mahadani coffin? Maybe you want your coffin to be just like it.
So soft and peaceful. Just the thing for a good night. The sleepcra, he was just but the night when old Tyler's jitter, with only the wind and morn for him. Many of the town wits at great fun with Tyler's jitter's name.
Well, that was what he did. The dud's grazed in a little cemetery on the edge of town. Tyler was a good grazed jitter. The walls of the greys he dug were staked, and a never-taved in while the funerals were going on.
That's why the cemetery people had hired him, and not all Lou hid him. The other African sisters careful with his grave, he was even more careful. With his eyes that worked in the graveyard so long, he wanted his bed to be more soft and comfortable.
Then those many coffins he helped lower into the ground. Bored by Bored, please fight me. He built his bed, using only the finest of mahogany. Yes, Eddie mahogany. He caught Silas the wages of many a gravedige in, just for the wood alone.
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